Paris, Virginia Paris, Virginia Paris in autumn (Trinity United Methodist Church with Ashby Inn behind it) Paris in autumn (Trinity United Methodist Church with Ashby Inn behind it) Paris is positioned in Northern Virginia Paris - Paris Paris is now a small unincorporated improve in Fauquier County, Virginia, United States.
Located in Virginia's hunt country, it was established in a strategic spot at the easterly base of Ashby Gap along U.S.
The Virginia General Assembly in 1810 issued a charter for a town at the intersection of Ashby Gap Road (which it authorized to be paved that year, and later became Route 50) and the Dumfries-Winchester Road (which later became Route 17), although the town was actually platted two decades earlier (and not all of the 14 prepared streets were ever completed).
In 1819 the town was titled to memorialize the tour of the returning Marquis de Lafayette to the United States after the War of 1812.
In 1835, Paris had a several taverns, three stores, a school and a church shared by a several denominations, as well as 25 dwellings, 2 saddlers, 2 blacksmiths, 2 wagonmakers, a tailor, a cabinetmaker, a chairmaker, a turner, a wheat fan manufacturer and three boot and shoe factories. The Manassas Gap Railroad constructed in 1852 went slightly south, through close-by Marshall, Delaplane and The Plains, Virginia, so Paris and its carting-based businesses declined.
The populace in 1880 was 134 persons in 22 homeholds, including physicians, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, harness manufacturers, tanners, shoemakers, carpenters, seamstresses and a bookkeeper and silversmith. The current Routes 17 and 50 were slightly rerouted outside the historic town (Ashby Gap turnpike was once the town's chief street, and the old Ashby Hotel/tavern was finished in 1939 by a runaway truck coming down from the mountain). The Paris Historic District has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2004, and also constitutes the northern portion of the larger Crooked Run Valley Rural Historic District.
The peak of the Blue Ridge, overlooking Paris is called Ashby Gap.
(1988) The tradition of Virginia: The story of place names in the Old Dominion.
Municipalities and communities of Fauquier County, Virginia, United States
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Unincorporated communities in Fauquier County, Virginia - Unincorporated communities in Virginia
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